On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Billy Biggs wrote:

>   The same holds for software as well: interface is almost everything.  I
> would much rather have a sequencer with less features and a good UI than a
> fully-featured one that's annoying to use.  When composing it's important
> to "forget technology: think music".

I just couldn't agree more!

>   This was the thought behind my sequencer: ttrk (http://div8.net/ttrk).  
> I did a UI that I'm pretty proud of for the target platform: basically
> it's an Alesis MMT8 meets a tracker in 80x50 textmode on an old PC, low
> enough latency to have really smooth drumrolls even at high bpm, and it
> syncs happily to external MIDI clock (essential for my setup).
[...]
>   Of course, since I have a market size of 1 (myself), and pretty much no
> interest from the open-source community, the project hasn't gone
> anywhere else.  But I'm quite happy with it. :)

Make that two!! :) ttrk has been one of my favorite audio apps for a while
now. Thanks to the well-defined set of functionality and the way it is
implemented, there just isn't much to complain about. ;)

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